Re: in other ways...
| From: | Eric Christopherson <raccoon@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, September 3, 1999, 2:46 |
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From: BP Jonsson <melroch@...>
To: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, September 2, 1999 8:13 AM
Subject: Re: in other ways...
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> Message from: "BP Jonsson" bpj@netg.se, melroch@hotbot.com
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> >Potential history of English language. This how it could be :
> >saying "royal" but writing "kingisk".
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> Just for the record: Middle Persian was the other way around, they wrote
_royal_ but said "kingly", so to speak. (Actually: wrote MLK but said
"shah"!)
MLK=the initials of Martin Luther *King*... coincidence?? *spooky music*
:)
> >Has anybody done this potential development for languages?
> >What would have happened to English if normans had been beaten!
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> William Morris pondered that question, as has Poul Anderson. Both have
experimented with texts too.
It's kind of happened in Japanese... most kanji symbols have both a
Chinese-derived pronunciation and a native pronunciation, and which one you
use depends on the word in question.